sine wave generation

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can anyone please give me idea about how to generate sine wave in vhdl.....please

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Search the forum, there's a file hosted somewhere here.

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I think many people will recommend a look up table approach, while others will recommend the Cordic based method. My recommendation is to implement a cordic in rotation mode, and simply feed it a constant X value, and set Y to zero, and make the angle correspond to a frequency that you wish the fundamental output to be. Then you will get both sine and cosine, with no lookup table, and small resource usage. James

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hi james, first thank you very much for giving reply. actually i already tried with cordic rotation method,,,but i didn't get it may be i think i'm not going with correct path in coding, so that i'm looking towards lookup table method.., i'm very glad to you if you provide me some info on cordic algorithm.

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lookup goertlez's algorithm. 

Basically: sin(a+b) = sin(a)cos(b) - cos(a)sin(b) sin(a-b) = sin(a)cos(b) + cos(a)sin(b) so: sin(a+b) = 2sin(a)cos(b) - sin(a-b) and you can generate the terms in sequence with a multiply and an add

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thank you Socrates ...

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Hi guys 

 I'm working on an audio synthesizer.  I used a "case" using exel (for calculate function).  you can use matlab too.   vhdl code exemple:    case nTHETA is --Table (wave)  WHEN 1 => SINE_TMP := 32799 ; WHEN 2 => SINE_TMP := 32832 ; WHEN 3 => SINE_TMP := 32865 ; WHEN 4 => SINE_TMP := 32898 ;  ...  WHEN 6280 => SINE_TMP := 32662 ; WHEN 6281 => SINE_TMP := 32695 ; WHEN 6282 => SINE_TMP := 32728 ; WHEN 6283 => SINE_TMP := 32760 ; WHEN others => SINE_TMP := 0 ;   end case;

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If you use google translator to translate italian see delucagiovanni.com/public/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=269 

 Ciao!

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instead of a laborious case statement, why not use a constant that is set up via a function using the cos/sin function from the math_real library?

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--- Quote Start ---  instead of a laborious case statement, why not use a constant that is set up via a function using the cos/sin function from the math_real library?  --- Quote End ---    simply because they knew that library thank you!  i will check now

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thank you very much friends for your great suggestions and for good discussion.....